Second p0st: Structured procrastination | UserLand global shortcuts | Now reading UserLand shortcuts

2002-11-19

Structured procrastination

This is great. Structured Procrastination, found on Adam Wendt, via postneo.

When you see me announcing new features in bzero or PyCS, it's probably because I've got something far more important that I'm meant to be doing. Unintentional 'structured procrastination'.

The author has a few more "light essays". Good reading.

So next time you hear a European start that old joke, "If you call someone who knows two languages "bilingual" ... ," hold your head up and say, "That's aboot the stupidest bloody joke I've ever heard and [mutter mutter]." You will instantly establish that you are in fact at least tri-lingual, and get the respect you deserve.

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UserLand global shortcuts

The UserLand Global Shortcuts are cool. There are some things in there that probably don't belong in bzero though ... '

', for example ;-)

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Now reading UserLand shortcuts

That was easier than I expected. It took Dave Winer one line of UserTalk code to convert his shortcuts into XML, and it took me five lines of Python to read them back in. Nice. I like XML-RPC -- it makes it very easy to serialise scripting-language-friendly data structures to XML and get them back out.

import xmlrpclib
p, u = xmlrpclib.getparser()
p.feed(text)
p.close()
shortcuts = u._stack[0]

Shortcuts

bzero now does shortcuts. More details when 0.11 is all ready. Wondering whether to include UserLand's standard shortcut list. I seem to remember Dave Winer saying somewhere that they didn't mind people doing that. Hmm.

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